feast or famine in the dating world (a final conversation with Man 1); and the implications of global warming for dating in new york

So there I was, today, Thursday morning, sitting at my desk not doing the work I was supposed to be doing but rereading and rereading my print-out of Performer’s latest email (we spoke on the phone Wednesday afternoon, about 12 hours after our date ended [4 a.m. Weds], and he also called before that, when [...]

my date with performer

This
may
be
The
One.
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It’s 4 a.m and he just went home. I have to get to bed now.
More tomorrow.
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Wednesday morning.
Have not gotten enough sleep but not able to sleep any more.
Just enough energy for a string of thoughts & details:
In order to lower my expectations before [...]

my date with man 1

When I came in at 12:30 a.m. from my date with Man 1, the doorman told me I was beautiful.
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Now, don’t think bad thoughts about the doorman (though he is the same one who, in my ‘a somewhat unusual evening….with 3 men’ post, introduced me [...]

Magellan, Columbus, those guys

To schoolkids who’ve reached this blog looking for information on explorers: GO ELSEWHERE. You’re in the wrong place. I’m just making an analogy. (Look that last word up.)
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I haven’t had time to write up my statistical survey (quirky statistics only, e.g. how many [...]

my dates next week: pros & cons

On-line, on telephone, and on email, at least, my two dates this week appear better than any I’ve had for ages. To try to gauge the difference, or perhaps the distance, between pre-date image and the reality of the man, I’m going to write out some thoughts about them now, well ahead of time, [...]

a pimple delays progress

What does that mean, you wonder?
It means that Man 1 called.
We have a date for Monday evening.
He asked me out for tonight, Friday — and I said I was busy.
I’m not.
I didn’t delay for the reason you might think, that I wanted to appear ‘booked,’ busy, not leading such a dull life that I can [...]

the farmers in the dell

This is really funny: both of the men I’ll be seeing next week — S and Performer — are spending this weekend at their farms. Each man told me that his farm is near the town of Q –the same town — but not quite in it. Each man gave [...]

the line-up & the pipeline

Time to mix metaphors.
Here’s the current line-up, some of them in the pipeline:
1) S has been emailing. I’m still ambivalent about accepting a second date, but since he hasn’t yet asked, I haven’t had to decide! But he has made it clear in his emails how interested he is… Because I’ve wanted [...]

a somewhat unusual evening…with 3 men

For many people, a two-glasses-of-wine evening is akin to teetotaling.
For me, it was a high old time. Last night was the first time I’d had two glasses of wine in a single evening since 1982.
It’s not that I was deliberately or medically off the sauce all that time, but that 20+ years of pregnancies [...]

serious googling: TMI about my dates — i google them, they google me; and what i found when i googled the octogenarian…

We all google our dates, and many of them google us. It’s astonishing (and horrifying) how much info is available, right there on the web, through serious, i.e. diligent research, without paying any money for searches or having to log-in to any closed sites. The info is just sitting there. [...]